21 minutes that'll wreck you about leaving home forever.
Anna is eighteen and has always lived in a housing block in Eastern France. But when her professional future opens up different paths to her, she is paralyzed at the thought of moving away from her neighborhood, her friends, her memories and identity. What is she prepared to leave behind?
Acting
Zoé Héran's wordless anxiety says everything.
Cinematography
The housing block as character, not backdrop.
Director
Aurelie Marpeaux
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Explores France's often-ignored banlieue experience beyond crime narratives—just ordinary working-class kids facing ordinary impossible choices.
Marpeaux shot in her actual hometown; those apartment corridors carry real memory, which is why the dread feels so lived-in.
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